Santa Clara is a light rail

Light rail

Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than heavy rail and metro systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than traditional street-running tram systems...

 station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is a special-purpose district responsible for public transit services, congestion management, specific highway improvement projects, and countywide transportation planning for Santa Clara County, California, United States...

 (VTA). Santa Clara station is served by both the Alum Rock–Santa Teresa and Mountain View–Winchester light rail lines.

Santa Clara station is a major transit transfer point in the VTA system. 16 VTA bus

Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...

 routes, along with Highway 17 Express bus from Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...

, connect with light rail at this station.

Location

Santa Clara station is located in the Historic District

Downtown Historic District (San Jose, California)

The Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California is a designated U.S. Historic District area of the city roughly the size of one square block. It is bounded by S. First Street to the west, E. San Fernando Street to the south, S. Third Street to the east, and E. Santa Clara Street to the...

 of Downtown

Downtown San Jose

Downtown San Jose is the central business district of San Jose, California, United States. The area is generally located north of Interstate 280 and east of Guadalupe Parkway, which roughly parallels the Guadalupe River. The region is bound to the north by U.S...

 San Jose, California

San Jose, California

San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

 on 1st and 2nd Streets just south of Santa Clara Street. The northbound platform is on 1st Street; the southbound platform is on 2nd Street. The platforms are connected via a walkway named Fountain Alley.

Refurbishment project

VTA closed this station for refurbishment from January to May 2007 to allow level boarding at all doors, thus making the station fully wheelchair accessible.

Nearby points of interest

• Santa Clara VTA Downtown Customer Service Center
  Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
  The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is a special-purpose district responsible for public transit services, congestion management, specific highway improvement projects, and countywide transportation planning for Santa Clara County, California, United States...
  
   - less than 1 block away - 2 N 1st St
• San Jose City Hall - 2-3 blocks away - 200 E Santa Clara St
• San Jose Improv
  San Jose Improv
  The San Jose Improv is a comedy club located in San Jose, California.-History:Formerly known as the Jose Theater, built in 1904, is the oldest theater in San Jose, located on Second Street, near San Fernando Street. Construction of the Jose was started in 1903, under the ownership of David Jacks,...
  
   - less than 1 block away - 62 S 2nd St
• Ballet San Jose
  Ballet San Jose
  Ballet San Jose in San Jose, California, USA, was founded in 1986 as the "San Jose Cleveland Ballet," a co-venture with the ten-year old Cleveland Ballet which offered to the dancers added performing exposure, and each city a ballet company for a moderate, shared investment...
  
   - 1 block away - 40 N 1st Street
• San Jose Museum of Art
  San Jose Museum of Art
  The San Jose Museum of Art is an art museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA. Founded in 1969, the museum hosts a large permanent collection emphasizing West Coast artists of the 20th- and 21st-century. It is located next to the Circle of Palms Plaza and Plaza de César Chávez...
  
   - 2-3 blocks away - 110 S Market St
• Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph
  Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph (San Jose)
  -External links:* *...
  
   - 2-3 blocks away - 90 S Market St

Future BART station

Santa Clara station is planned as a future transfer point between BART (in the second, unfunded phase of a extension from Fremont) and VTA light rail. The BART downtown San Jose subway station

Downtown San José (BART station)

Downtown San Jose BART station is a planned underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station in southern San Jose, California, part of the Silicon Valley BART extension...

is proposed to be built under Santa Clara Street.

External links

• Station information (Transit Unlimited)